ID 677 • Sw – • BP 4194 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√QBL
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl qiblah, from Ar qiblaẗ ‘the direction of the Kaaba, toward which Muslims face when praying’, from qabila, vb. I, ‘to receive’ (cf. also the prob. denom. L-stem qābala ‘to face’).
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